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...participants will teach English to poor teenagers in Mexico City through an intensive language course. "Our goal is to achieve fluency in seven weeks," Palos says. Once again, the project's goal is very ambitious. Palos explains that seven weeks is currently considered by professionals to be the minimum time in which fluency can be achieved...
...Council also approved a non-binding order asking "those or that government agency which is responsible for homeless matters" to create a formula for the amount of shelter Cambridge should provide to homeless people. The order also set minimum standards for rooms that the city provides for the homeless. Finally, it endorsed plans to involve other Boston-area towns in a "network" of shelters to even out the burden on towns with overcrowded facilities...
Wednesday, 20--In order to keep overall tuition raises to a minimum, acceptance letters will go out today to an incoming class of 13,567 students. "We figured we'd let them all in this year," said Dean William Fitzimmons, "After all, there was an unusually high number of candidates from old Harvard families...
Frisch has determined that if a woman weighs 10 to 15 percent below her normal weight, her reproductive cycle will be turned off. Doctors have even created a "fatness index," indicating the minimum amount a woman must weigh to be fertile. Women who become infertile can refer to this index to discover the weight they need to regain fertility, assuming nothing else is wrong, Frisch says...
Keeping flying sparks to a minimum, Palestinian and Israeli representatives faced off at the Law School last night in a discussion of the past months' riots in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem...